“Grey’s Anatomy” Steals Script From “thirtysomething”
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I had a sense of déjà vu watching the Grey's Anatomy denouement of the Katherine Heigl character Izzie's season-long cancer diagnosis, juxtaposed with the surprise hit-by-a-bus plot twist killing off T.R. Knight's George O'Malley in the last scene. Until I read Willa Paskin's post, I wrote the feeling off to general season finale redundancy. After all, just this week Gregory House's hallucinations imitated Izzie's endless conversations with her dead fiancé Denny proving there is nothing original where ratings are concerned. But something in Willa's post about Grey's forgetting its pact with readers reminded me when I had felt the same bait-and-switch let-down from a series before. This is ancient history by TV drama standards, but the writers of TV classic thirtysomething pulled the same stunt back in 1991 when viewers, agonizing over the possible death of Patricia Wettig's beloved character Nancy Weston, were completely surprised to learn that, though Nancy pulled through, college professor Gary Shepherd, played by Peter Horton, was summarily taken out off-screen. The surviving characters learned he was hit by a tractor trailer in the last moments of the episode. It's probably not a coincidence that Peter Horton went on to executive produce Grey's Anatomy.
Bonnie Goldstein Trained investigator, experienced mother and beginning blogger.
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By: artemis | Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:54
I had the same flash of insight this morning about how the plot echoed Gary's unexpected death on thirtysomething when Nancy was going in for her "second look" (remember the dream sequence where Elliot's answering machine had the message--"we can't answer because Nancy has cancer")
George as patient John Doe also echoed a plotline on ER where the African American medicine student jumps in front of a train & is brought to the ER & they don't figure out who it is until his pager goes off.
thirtysomething & er
By: artemis | Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:54
I had the same flash of insight this morning about how the plot echoed Gary's unexpected death on thirtysomething when Nancy was going in for her "second look" (remember the dream sequence where Elliot's answering machine had the message--"we can't answer because Nancy has cancer")
George as patient John Doe also echoed a plotline on ER where the African American medicine student jumps in front of a train & is brought to the ER & they don't figure out who it is until his pager goes off.
Sounded familiar somewhere else...
By: gudlyf | Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:54
... like ER and House, for example: http://www.cliqueclack.com/tv/2009/05/15/this-thing-looks-like-that-thin...
When Gary died...
By: jerseygirl | Fri, 05/15/2009 - 12:51
Yes, I remember that, too. And I also recall reading an interview with the series' writer(s). They claimed that they were originally going to kill off Wettig's character. But they had received such a passionate response from viewers, including many cancer survivors/patients who had come to identify with her, that they couldn't do it. But they liked the idea of dealing with the whole death/mortality theme, so they decided to kill off someone else. I don't remember why it was Peter Horton, but perhaps his contract was up?